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Alien: Resurrection (1997) Rank 5 Reviews
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ToxicUniverse.com (Kevin Buffington)
Oregon Herald (Jamie Peck)
Doug Skiles
Rated R by the MPAA for blood and violence, strong language, and some minor nudity.Reviewed by Doug SkilesMy ratings scale needs work.I gave an A+ to THE LOST WORLD this year and one to FACE/OFF too. Okay, that's nice. Those movie met my expectations. I ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Doug Skiles
Geir Friestad
Is there any point in writing an introduction of the Aliensaga? Are there anyone here who aren't familiar with Ridley Scott's nail bitingly good scifi horror movie "Alien" from 1979, with unavoidable sequels by James "I can spend more money than you" ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Geir Friestad
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AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Despite these faults, Alien Resurrection is a rarity--an action movie with artistic aspirations that succeeds on both levels. As usual for the Alien movies, Alien Resurrection looks sensational, too. In order to heighten contrasts, cinematographer ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Vincent Archer
JeanPierre Jeunet (without its usual complice Marc Caro) was selected by the producers on the strength of _The City of the Lost Children_, whose bizarre vision showed that he could create yet another different style for _Aliens_. The fact that he didn't ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Vincent Archer
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Andy Wright
Deserves Recognition for: Actress (Weaver), Cinematography (Darius Khondji)20Capsule Review: Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley's back from the dead and fighting more of the most Freudian bugs in the universe in a flick that, while nowhere near the quality of ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Andy Wright
DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
Alien Resurrection didn't seem like it was going to be a good film. I had my reservations given the plot & storyline but, they pulled it off & very well I might say. I enjoyed the picture & think you will too. It's probably ranked as the next best entry ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
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Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Weaver has done a good job of altering Ripley's characterization ever so slightly, into a kind of Frankenstein's monster version of her former self, but she's still much shallower than in the original, and Ryder and the others are even flatter. As with ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Ellen Ripley and the grotesque monsters of theAlienfilms have known each other so long, a little of each has rubbed off on the other.That's the highly original premise ofAlien Resurrection, fourth in the oh-so-popular series of ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
The first thing to strike you about this film is the visual style. The intricate production design and very clever cinematography combines to make every frame of footage seem as beautiful and detailed as a piece of art. The FX are also top-notch, ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
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Homer Yen
However, as this genre mandates, there must be at least a handful of people who have yet to escape. Those still onboard include the Ripley clone and an assorted bunch of grizzled space dogs, including Call (Winona Ryder). Naturally, there is no easy way ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Homer Yen
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
A welcome return to [the series'] roots as a wild, reckless thrill ride. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
David Sunga
Opinion: Prior to this film, the best movie of the entire ‘Alien' series was probably number two: ‘Aliens' (1986, director James Cameron; it was about a small multiethnic crew of humans including clone Ripley on a planet full of predatory aliens) ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at David Sunga
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Michael Dequina
Writer Joss Whedon devises a quick, easy, and painless answer to the dead Ripley problemclone her, which is what shady military scientists do using some blood left behind on Fiorina 161, the prison planet of the third film. That done, the _real_ ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Michael Dequina
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
Moviegoers who expect more surprise and mystery from the grisly and suspenseful sci-fi "Alien" series will be disappointed. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
kids-in-mind
A new, improved, genetically cloned Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) fights the Beast once again. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at kids-in-mind
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Ted Prigge
"Alien: Resurrection" leaves off 200 years after the last one, where our heroine protagonist, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the science fiction genre's answer to Job, had killed herself after discovering that an alien was inside her body, waiting to ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Ted Prigge
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Alien Resurrection doesn't have any profound subtexts like Alien3. Like Aliens, it's more "Hollywoodish" than Alien or Alien3, but it's not quite as bombastic, or as successful as Aliens. But, it's not that far removed from Aliens as a prime cut of ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Classic Horror
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Wrong. Ripley is back, albeit a bit different, in "Alien Resurrection," the fourth installment of the $350 million science fiction franchise started almost twenty years ago in 1979 with the infamous tagline, "In space, no one can hear you scream." The ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
A disappointment, to be sure. Alien Resurrection works from a science-fiction screenplay that firmly casts its lot with the gynecological horror of the first and third films in the series rather than with the marines-in-space theme of the second. But if ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Alien Resurrection is an appropriate title for the fourth film in the Alien franchise. Not only does it contrive to bring Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) back from the dead, it manages to wrest the entire franchise from a horrendous death in the equally ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
If nothing else, Alien Resurrection emphasizes something that became apparent five years ago with Alien 3 -- the series hasn't only run out of steam, it's getting thin on new ideas. No one seems willing to take any chances with the franchise, so we keep s ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
E. Benjamin Kelsey
As ALIEN: RESURRECTION begins, we are on a spacecraft where scientists remove an alien baby from Sigourney Weaver's body. Then, from what I could gather, we jump quite a few years into the future. They have cloned Ellen Ripley (Weaver) and her "baby" is ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at E. Benjamin Kelsey
FilmLand Web (Robert Konop)
Scott Renshaw
The thing is, ALIEN RESURRECTION didn't give me much reason to care about what those reasons might be. Screenwriter Joss Whedon spends plenty of time on the particulars of the situation the aforementioned Evil Military Scientists and their unholy ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Scott Renshaw
Dragan Antulov
Thankfully, scriptwriter Joss Wheddon (who would later rewrite television history with BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) took more ingenious approach. The plot of ALIEN: RESURRECTION takes place some two hundred years after Lt. Ripley's death. Only microscopic ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Dragan Antulov
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The dilemma that confronts the creative forces trying to build upon a successful film institution like Alien is the delicate task of adding a fresh twist to the series' archetypal elements ingrained in, and expected by the minds of film going ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Steve Rhodes
In ALIEN: RESURRECTION an undercover branch of the United States military takes blood from the place where Ripley died and clones up a new Ripley so they can harvest the alien inside her chest. (One of the best parts of the story is the scene in the ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Steve Rhodes
Michael Redman
The "heroes" this time around are a ragtag group of rough space pirates who deliver humans to the science ship to serve as hosts for the infant monstrosities. The spaceage highwaymen are a likable bunch for folks who sell living people to be used as ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Michael Redman
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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
One thing that Alien Resurrection has going for it is a strong visual sense. Jean-Paul
Jeunet, who previously co-directed Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children (with Marc Caro), ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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200 years after her death,
Ripley is "resurrected" by being cloned out of her DNA samples. Unfortunately,
the alien mother that was within her gets resurrected as well, and the
scientists that do the cloning are more than pleased at ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...it's two hundred years down the road from Alien 3 , and Ripley is long gone. If only. ( Alien Quadrilogy ) ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Alex Fung
Among sciencefiction and fantasy aficionados, few film sagas have captured the imagination as much as the ALIEN movie franchise, which started off with a bang in 1979's unbearably creepy Ridley Scott 'haunted houseinspace' entry, and continued with a ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Alex Fung
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
ALIEN: RESURRECTION is a mess. The fourth film in the series is easily the worst film in the series. No, it's not a total bomb-Ms. Weaver is immanently watchable, the art direction is a winner, there's more humor to go around, and director Jean-Pierre ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
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Brian Takeshita
In ALIEN RESURRECTION, Ripley is not really Ripley, but a clone generated a couple hundred years later from the first Ripley's own tissue that had been saved from the planet on which she died. The people cloning her are from a militarybusiness ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Brian Takeshita
Apollo Guide (Elspeth Haughton)
A lot of people die in the fourth instalment of the Alien series. Once again, the military scientists want the toothy, acid-blooded alien for research, vaccines, warfare, and other illogical reasons. Over 200 years after her death they clone Ellen ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Apollo Guide (Elspeth Haughton)
Matt Petras
Ellen Ripley died 200 years ago trying to wipe out a violent species, she succeeded. Until now. Brought back to life by methods of cloning. Brought back to life with the Queen still inside her. The queen alien is removed from Ripley and raised for ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Matt Petras
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
I'm not entirely sure how to begin a review of the highly-anticipated (at least for me) fourth installment of the Alien series except to say... what a letdown.
Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley died in Alien3, the movie that was supposed to put the nail ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
David N. Butterworth
This time around we get the typical ragtag band of heavilyarmed space derelicts who happen onboard a scientific research vessel. Here they mess with an equally ragtag band of covert military operatives engaged in some notforprimetime experimentation ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at David N. Butterworth
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Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Don’t get me wrong, I still love Jeunet and Caro. I hope this movie is successful for their sakes. But it was the wrong script for their particular style of moviemaking. Hopefully they’ll earn enough money and recognition from this film that ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Movie Reviews UK
As repulsive as a spitting contest, it makes one wonder just what director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's goal was in rekindling the Alien series, an outlandish bit of rogue sci-fi to begin with. Oriiginally novel and moderately artistic, the first instalment ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Visually impressive, but too much of it is contrived and totally far-fetched - making it effectively the binary opposite of the original movie. Here is a prime example of a franchise that should have quit while it was ahead. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
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New York Times (Janet Maslin)
The filmmaker's ghoulishly fecund imagination makes this tale murky that even the screen's toughest woman warrior remains largely stuck in the mud. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at New York Times (Janet Maslin)
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Film Threat (Tom Meek)
Unfortunately, Weaver and Jeunet's efforts are short changed by the ineptness of Joss Whedon's script, that seems to find a way to make action sequences unexciting. ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Film Threat (Tom Meek)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
After 1992's abysmal Alien 3, the masterminds at 20th Century Fox just had to find a way to bring back Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) for one last go round in the Alien universe. One would think that after five years of brainstorming and script ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Between "Alien" and "Aliens," 57 years passed, with Ellen Ripley in suspended animation. Between "Aliens" and "Alien3," she drifted through space in a lifeboat, before landing on a prison ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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Usually I enjoy bad movies because they are great to laugh at - but when the bad movie in question is a sequel to my all-time favorite movie ALIENS it's not funny at all. It is sad and upsetting. Granted, Alien: Resurrection is better than the squalid ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
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Bloody-Distgusting
Other than that, Alien: Resurrection was a total waste of time and money that has received every bit of derision it deserves. It was a blatant attempt to wrangle money out of the hands of loyal fans with absolute cinema s**t and I for one have ...read the complete Alien: Resurrection movie review at Bloody-Distgusting
User Reviews
by Amy Faunce on August 09, 2009
I wasn't expecting this to come via UPS cause I always got things from Amazon via USPS, so it was a good thing I was home when my package came. It was in a brown paper thingy and wasn't packaged very well inside (no protective wrapping), but the movie ...
by VaneS F "Love You... on February 23, 2009
Sigourney WeaVer the heart-stopping beauty in Ghostbusters has again defied her yale professors who proclaimed she'd never make it as an actress by delivering (she's gorgeous!)another actinG (a Dyke Icon for not nothing you know!)triUmph.See her ...
by M.Corrine P "Soar... on January 25, 2009
I purchased this DVD to complete my Alien movie collection. It was new so no problem with it. I am happy I could purchase it to complete my set. ...
by Laura Stinehart "... on April 24, 2008
The last in this series! Is as good as the other 3 and am happy I have it. ...
by Scott Krumwiede on March 28, 2008
Sigourney Weaver does it again in the final movie. No disappointment here, she kicks ...
by Grover L. Watson ... on February 24, 2008
Many times, when an idea is revisited in a Sequel film, the whole series is ruined by a bad movie. This was the 4th movie in the ALIEN series, and could be arguably the best one. By letting the resurrected Ripley play the semi-bad guy in this one, it ...
by Giovanni C. Quino... on January 25, 2008
I like this movie very much is so different from the others, really i know maybe you will say this guy is wrong but is true. Every movie has its own history and expecific area. After 200 years o more they clon to ripley again but we have to honest some ...
by Brian Clifton on August 20, 2007
I personally think this movie is the best of ...
by Jonathan Griffith... on May 23, 2007
This is the final chapter of the Alien saga unless you count AVP which I kinda count as both a prequal to the Alien saga and a sequal to the Predator saga. I remember being very excited when this came out for two reasons. I love the Alien movies and this ...
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